While remote teaching has momentarily transformed their common creative writing course into a podcast, Fabienne Radi and Carla Demierre nonetheless advocate for experiential learning: the experience of reading, writing and rewriting beyond the clichés of poetry as it is taught in primary school. Radi and Demierre discuss their methods and the special place made for writing in an art and design school.

In September 2009, the literature periodical Remue.net – founded by the technophile writer François Bon – sat down with Hervé Laurent, the HEAD's "Monsieur Texte," to discuss the writing workshop Laurent pioneered ten years earlier. Here we are republishing the interview, on the occasion of this case study. Conducted by Fabienne Swiatly, the interview explains what is at play when developing a writing practice in an art school.

This selection of works by students and alumni from the HEAD's creative writing workshops testifies to the vitality and diversity of ways in which a text can be rendered. The variety of genres, from writing on the self to poetry, is matched by the variety of forms and media: editions, radio creations and sound postcards.

Fabienne Radi published two books in 2020: Émail diamant at Art&fiction and Le déclin du professeur de tennis at Sombres torrents. Sylvain Menétrey focuses on the latter, a collection of four short stories written by Radi and inspired by works she chose in the contemporary art collection of the Documents d'artistes network in France. In Le déclin du professeur de tennis, Radi dissects Bounty chocolate bars and catalogues of lumberjack accessories to keep morality at bay.

With Autoradio, published in 2019 by Héros-Limite, and Qui est là, published a year later by art&fiction, Carla Demierre uses concrete poetry and polyphonic narratives to express the variety of her own voices.